AI & RoboticsNews

How Yelp reviewed competing LLMs for correctness, relevance and tone to develop its user-friendly AI assistant

March 10, 2025
The review app Yelp has provided helpful information to diners and other consumers for decades. It had experimented with machine learning since its early years. During the recent explosion in AI technology, it was still encountering stumbling blocks as it worked to employ modern large language models to power some features. Yelp realized that customers, especially those who only occasionally used…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Remember that $2,000 electric mini-truck I bought from China? Now they're down to $1,000

March 10, 2025
In what could either be a sign of the times or perhaps the start of a terrible decision-making chain, that famous $2,000 electric mini-truck I bought from China several years ago has somehow gotten even cheaper. If you aren’t already familiar with the story, here’s a quick summary. Back in 2021, I ordered an electric mini-truck from China. I paid the factory $2,000 for it, held my breath for…
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CryptoNews

'Opaque' Crypto Political Contributions Erode Trust, Says Center for Political Accountability

March 10, 2025
The Center for Political Accountability is sounding the alarm on the secretive and unaccountable political contributions made by cryptocurrency firms, particularly Coinbase and Ripple Labs. Legal and Financial Risks The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) has stated that the “opaque and unaccountable political contributions” by crypto firms erode investor confidence and public trust in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo

March 7, 2025
One goal for an agentic future is for AI agents from different organizations to freely and seamlessly talk to one another. But getting to that point requires interoperability, and these agents may have been built with different LLMs, data frameworks and code. A group of companies, including Cisco, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Galileo and Glean, have now created AGNTCY, an open-source collective with the…
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